EDITORIAL - Special 'hardship' pay for teachers
WE ARE sympathetic to Edward Seaga's suggestion that teachers who work in "hardship areas," by which we suppose he means tough inner-city communities, should get special pay. Indeed, the concept of hardship allowances is not unknown in other professions...
Europe, Africa, Jamaica (Part 2)
Last week I began a précis of the powerful book Jamaica Genesis published by Australian anthropologist Diane Austin-Broos in 1997, in which she proposes a theory of the evolution of Jamaican culture. She explains the dramatic post-Emancipation shift... - Peter Espeut
The poor can suffer more
"There is no pleasant way to say this," commented Clive Williams, an auto mechanic, "but the poorer the areas and the more depressed the people are, the more they love the PNP." A PNP supporter, in Monday's Gleaner, added: "Things are bad everywhere... - Delroy Chuck
The rise of the Empress Zahra
Jamaica's struggle with its identity has taken a turn which has forced me to re-examine my antipathy to beauty contests. Ms. Redwood has gone to represent Jamaica in Mexico in a context in which her brains and beauty will be matched to contestants... - Hilary Robertson-Hickling
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